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Table of Contents, by Language
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- Afrikaans, Belarusian (Беларуская), Bulgarian
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- English, Español, Esperanto, Estonian (Eesti)
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- Filipino, Finnish, French
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- German, Greek (Ελληνικά), Gurmukhi (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ)
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- I, J
- Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, 日本語(Japanese)
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- ಕನ್ನಡ Kannada, Klingon, 한국어(Korean)
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- Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian (lietuviškai)
- M, N
- മലയാളം Malayalam, मराठी Marathi, Norwegian
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- Pig Latin, Polish, Português, Português Brasileiro
- R
- Romanian, Russian (Русский)
- S
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- T, U
- Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, ภาษาไทย, Türkçe, Ukrainian
- Other
- فارسی
See also http://www.joelonsoftware.com/OtherLanguages.html for the older versions.
Table of Contents, by Date
- 1999-Dec-24 Let's Take Sabbaticals!
- 2000-Mar-18 More on Sabbaticals...
- 2000-Mar-19 Two Stories
- 2000-Mar-21 Converting Capital Into Software That Works
- 2000-Mar-23 Command and Conquer and the Herd of Coconuts
- 2000-Mar-23 The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
- 2000-Mar-28 NDAs and Contracts That You Should Never Sign
- 2000-Mar-29 Painless Software Schedules
- 2000-Apr-03 Incentive Pay Considered Harmful
- 2000-Apr 06 Things You Should Never Do, Part I
- 2000-Apr-10 User Interface Design for Programmers Chapter 1: Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy
- 2000-Apr-11 User Interface Design for Programmers Chapter 2: Figuring Out What They Expected
- 2000-Apr-12 User Interface Design for Programmers Chapter 3: Choices
- 2000-Apr-18 User Interface Design for Programmers Chapter 4: Affordances and Metaphors
- 2000-Apr-19 Where do These People Get Their (Unoriginal) Ideas?
- 2000-Apr-22 User Interface Design for Programmers Chapter 5: Consistency and Other Hobgoblins
- 2000-Apr-26 User Interface Design for Programmers Chapter 6: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives
- 2000-Apr-27 User Interface Design for Programmers Chapter 7: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Two
- 2000-Apr-30 Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers
- 2000-May-08 User Interface Design for Programmers Chapter 8: Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Three
- 2000-May-08 Juggling Tasks in Excel
- 2000-May-09 User Interface Design for Programmers Chapter 9: The Process of Designing a Product
- 2000-May-12 Auto motion in Excel?
- 2000-May-12 Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon
- 2000-May-24 Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems
- 2000-May 26 Reading Code is Like Reading the Talmud
- 2000-Jun-03 Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
- 2000-Jun-12 REALBasic
- 2000-Jun-15 Whaddaya Mean, You Can't Find Programmers?
- 2000-Jul-22 Microsoft Goes Bonkers
- 2000-Jul-25 Anonymous Response
- 2000-Jul-26 Does Issuing Passports Make Microsoft a Country?
- 2000-Jul-28 Passport Responses
- 2000-Jul-31 The Wireless Web: Spacesuits Needed
- 2000-Aug-04 Free Desktop Pictures!
- 2000-Aug-07 Wordsworth Responds
- 2000-Aug-09 The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
- 2000-Aug-22 Three Wrong Ideas From Computer Science
- 2000-Aug-27 How do You Compensate Programmers?
- 2000-Aug-28 Feedback on Programmer Compensation
- 2000-Aug-30 Fog Creek Compensation
- 2000-Sep-12 Wasting Money on Cats
- 2000-Oct-02 Painless Functional Specifications - Part 1: Why Bother?
- 2000-Oct-03 Painless Functional Specifications - Part 2: What's a Spec?
- 2000-Oct-04 Painless Functional Specifications - Part 3: But... How?
- 2000-Oct-15 Painless Functional Specifications - Part 4: Tips
- 2000-Oct-25 Another Business Model That Doesn't Seem to Work
- 2000-Nov-08 Painless Bug Tracking
- 2000-Nov-14 International Readers
- 2000-Nov-20 Netscape Goes Bonkers
- 2000-Dec-02 Up the tata without a tutu
- 2000-Dec-20 The Ricochet Wireless Modem (a Review)
- 2001-Jan-18 Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef
- 2001-Jan-27 Daily Builds Are Your Friend
- 2001-Feb-12 Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
- 2001-Mar-19 Spring in Cambridge
- 2001-Mar-23 Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
- 2001-Mar-24 How Many Lies Can You Find In One Direct Mail Piece?
- 2001-Apr-21 Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
- 2001-Apr-22 Are the Groove Designers Architecture Astronauts?
- 2001-May-05 What is the Work of Dogs in this Country?
- 2001-Jun-21 Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy
- 2001-Jul-21 Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.
- 2001-Jul-31 Hard-assed Bug Fixin'
- 2001-Aug-22 Ask Joel
- 2001-Oct-12 Working on CityDesk, Part One
- 2001-Oct-12 What Does CityDesk Do?
- 2001-Oct-13 Working on CityDesk, Part Two
- 2001-Oct-14 In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
- 2001-Oct-17 Working on CityDesk, Part Three
- 2001-Oct-29 Working on CityDesk, Part Four
- 2001-Nov-13 Working on CityDesk, Part Five
- 2001-Nov-20 A Hard Drill Makes an Easy Battle
- 2001-Dec-11 Back to Basics
- 2001-Dec-25 Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt
- 2002-Jan-06 Fire And Motion
- 2002-Jan-23 Rub a dub dub
- 2002-Feb-13 The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
- 2002-Mar-04 Nothing is as Simple as it Seems
- 2002-Apr-09 Picking a Ship Date
- 2002-Apr-11 Our .NET Strategy
- 2002-May-06 Five Worlds
- 2002-May-09 Product Vision
- 2002-Jun-12 Strategy Letter V
- 2002-Jul-15 Measurement
- 2002-Aug-30 Platforms
- 2002-Sep-25 Worst Project Ever?
- 2002-Nov-11 The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- 2002-Dec-11 Lord Palmerston on Programming
- 2003-Jan-03 CityDesk Entity Classes
- 2003-Jan-15 Mouth Wide Shut
- 2003-Feb-03 New Server at Peer 1 Network
- 2003-Mar-03 Building Communities with Software
- 2003-Mar-28 Finding an Office in New York City
- 2003-Jun-03 Fixing Venture Capital
- 2003-Aug-01 Rick Chapman is In Search of Stupidity
- 2003-Sep-24 Bionic Office
- 2003-Oct-08 The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- 2003-Oct-16 The Book Club
- 2003-Dec-01 Craftsmanship
- 2003-Dec-14 Biculturalism
- 2004-Jan-26 Getting Your Résumé Read
- 2004-Jan-28 Please Sir May I Have a Linker?
- 2004-Mar-02 Top Twelve Tips for Running a Beta Test
- 2004-May-05 Mike Gunderloy's Coder to Developer
- 2004-Jun-13 How Microsoft Lost the API War
- 2004-Aug-19 Contents of Joel on Software, the Book
- 2004-Sep-06 It's Not Just Usability
- 2004-Dec-09 The //comment FAQ!
- 2004-Dec-15 Camels and Rubber Duckies
- 2005-Jan-02 Advice for Computer Science College Students
- 2005-Feb-05 Colo Expansion Version 2.0
- 2005-Feb-11 Foreword to Painless Project Management with FogBugz, by Mike Gunderloy
- 2005-Mar-23 Documentary Filmmaker Wanted
- 2005-Mar-28 The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part I
- 2005-Mar-29 The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part II
- 2005-Mar-30 The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part III
- 2005-Mar-31 The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part IV
- 2005-Apr-01 The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part V
- 2005-May-11 Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
- 2005-May-20 Wall Street Survival 101
- 2005-Jun-20 Introduction to Best Software Writing I
- 2005-Jul-07 Project Aardvark Midterm Report
- 2005-Jul-25 Hitting the High Notes
- 2005-Jul-30 Usability Testing with Morae
- 2005-Aug-17 The Project Aardvark Spec
- 2005-Oct-12 Set Your Priorities
- 2005-Oct-26 Fog Creek Software Management Training Program
- 2005-Nov-22 Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program
- 2005-Dec-13 How to Ship Anything
- 2005-Dec-29 Test Yourself
- 2005-Dec-29 The Perils of JavaSchools
- 2006-Jan-11 Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
- 2006-Jan-25 Introduction to Great Design
- 2006-Jan-26 Great Design: What is Design?
- 2006-Jan-30 Great Design - Table of Contents
- 2006-Jan-30 What Makes It Great?
- 2006-Mar-07 Usability in One Easy Step
- 2006-Apr-07 Foreword to “Eric Sink on the Business of Software”
- 2006-Apr-11 The Development Abstraction Layer
- 2006-May-16 FogBugz 4½ and Subjective Well-Being
- 2006-Jun-16 My First BillG Review
- 2006-Aug-01 Can Your Programming Language Do This?
- 2006-Aug-07 Three Management Methods (Introduction)
- 2006-Aug-08 The Command and Control Management Method
- 2006-Aug-09 The Econ 101 Management Method
- 2006-Aug-10 The Identity Management Method
- 2006-Aug-25 My three favorite Firefox extensions
- 2006-Sep-01 Language Wars
- 2006-Sep-01 Wasabi
- 2006-Sep-05 Introducing jobs.joelonsoftware.com
- 2006-Sep-06 Finding Great Developers
- 2006-Sep-07 Field Guide to Developers
- 2006-Sep-08 Sorting Resumes
- 2006-Sep-12 Ruby Performance Revisited
- 2006-Sep-19 Amazing X-Ray Glasses from Sprint!
- 2006-Oct-09 New Feature: Job Search
- 2006-Oct-12 Book Review: Beyond Java
- 2006-Oct-24 The Phone Screen
- 2006-Oct-25 The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)
- 2006-Nov-01 What's a SQL Injection Bug?
- 2006-Nov-09 The infinite music collection
- 2006-Nov-09 Oh, the emails you'll get...
- 2006-Nov-15 From the "you call this agile?" department
- 2006-Nov-21 Choices = Headaches
- 2006-Nov-29 Using source control tools on huge projects
- 2006-Nov-30 Pump 'n' dump spam
- 2006-Dec-05 Lego Programming
- 2006-Dec-09 Simplicity
- 2006-Dec-15 Elegance
- 2006-Dec-18 New Stuff!
- 2006-Dec-20 Half a million bugs!
- 2006-Dec-20 New year's resolution: get a better job!
- 2006-Dec-23 Explaining Steve Gillmor
- 2006-Dec-28 Bribing Bloggers
- 2007-Jan-02 Dreaming in Code
- 2007-Jan-21 The Big Picture
- 2007-Jan-30 Founders at Work
- 2007-Feb-19 Seven steps to remarkable customer service
- 2007-Jun-29 Management books
- 2007-Jul-09 Announcing FogBugz On Demand
- 2007-Sep-18 Strategy Letter VI
- 2007-Oct-05 California
- 2008-Nov-26 Exploding Offer Season
- 2009-Mar-09 How to be a program manager
- 2009-Jun-10 Platform vendors
- 2009-Sep-23 The Duct Tape Programmer
Contributors
This may or may not be a good place to list information about contributors to this site.
Joel Spolsky (original author)
Yasushi Aoki (Japanese), Mengzhaochun, Shaofan (Chinese (Simplified)), B6s, Liang-Bin Hsueh, Jiing, Kun-Lung Hsieh, Pu-Hua Mei, Warlocky (Chinese (Traditional)), Martin (Croatian), Tomovo (Czech), Anhelido, Bitfidus, Dcadenas, Ex, Jmnavarro, Jotamachuca, Leus, MatiasB, Miguel Farah (Español), Pantulis, Plopez, Roberto, Roberto Zoia (Español), Kuniklo (Esperanto), Alan71 (French), Alexandre Lemieux, B, JamesW, Johan Buret (French), Emalaith, Hypertyper84 (German), Momo (German), Sarhanis, Staikos (Greek), Ido, Mottyp, Shlomif (Hebrew), Agnul, Alessandro Gentilini (Italian), Sarvesh (Kannada), Abrenna, Thoand (Norwegian), Ako, Szymon Kobalczyk (Polish), Wiktor Wojtylak (Polish), Pv (Portuguese), Falcon (Português Brasileiro), Alex Lebedev, Dmarsentev, How, IlyaB, Javadujour, Mihmax, Nick Novick, Oleg Andreev, Sergej Grishaev,Silestone Sergey Kirienko, Shkuropiy Andrey, Vasilip, Margarita Isaeva, Evgeniy Vigovskiy (Russian), The Last of the Infinite Monkeys (Serbian), David Hall (Swedish), Limbus, Buyutec (Türkçe), Madcat (Ukrainian), Jpiw (other), Thierry Machicoane (French), Vianney Lecroart (French), Kastus' Razumouski (Belarusian), Jobin Daniel (Malayalam)
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